My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
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We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there
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You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose.
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You can't shake hands with a clenched fist
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. (Handwritten statement found in her residence)
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Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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